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I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4 and then run CentOS as a vm? This would give me the options to roll out other VM's if I want over the life of the server (which I likely won't need) but the

For some reason I can't ping or communicate with two of my machines that have static IP's on my lan. My mythbe and mythfe are both set to have static ip's in the event of some sort of power problem the wife can stillwatch tv. After installing CentOS5, I can't communicate with those two machines. I read through the release notes and the docs on dhcp, but I can't seem to see

I'm having trouble getting port forwarding working on my one box. I have 2 incoming internet connections. I have 2 servers on these connections. pubinternet privinternet eth0:x.x.x.x eth0:y.y.y.y eth1:10.10.10.1 eth1:10.10.10.4 I need to be able to port forward traffic

I have an old RHEL3 box that I am upgrading to CentOS5. I picked up a new Dell Poweredge R200 to use for that. Is there an easy way to copy all the user accounts and existing mail from the old server to the new one? Thanks. -- -=/>Thom

I just installed CentOS5 on my server and I have to get everything working on it. I chose to clean load it upgrading from RHEL3 to CentOS5. I'm having trouble understanding the way bind works now and was wondering if anyone has a bit of time to help me with it. I am starting from scratch and I only have my primary domain and one additional domain I host. Thanks. -- -=/>Thom

I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if vmware would be a good way to go for some testing. My current server is RHEL3, which is getting dated, and I think that I should refresh this server entirely in the move to ldap. We need to have an ldap server for publishing email addresses for a VPN for a nursing home that the upstream can harvest and we can browse to send